china doll
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact85780
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV016.10.1
- Description
- This doll has a china head, hands and feet with fabric body. The neck collar has been broken in the past and there is a crack in the neck of the doll. the dolls head is roughly 7.5 cm in diameter. The glaze is in flesh tones with brown hair and a pink ribbon in the hair. The glaze is worn on the proper left cheek and at the back of the head. The arms and hands and shins and shoes are porcelain. The costume is a pink gingham over skirt on top of a blue gingham ankle length skirt. A knitted blue cape covers both. The doll is also wearing a slip and pantaloons.
- Object History
- Doll named "Lily" who belonged to Muriel (nee McLennan) Allinger. Muriel was born to William and Margaret McLennan in 1915 in BC. The family moved to Capitol Hill in 1919 and the doll was given as a Christmas present the year before. The china head was purchased at Miller and Coe on Hastings Street, in Vancouver in 1918. Muriel's mother made the first body and the first clothing.
- Category
- 9. Recreational Artifacts
- Classification
- Toys
- Object Term
- Doll